Poetry. "After the day's amazement, / the insults and stupidities, / it's all right to sing this tired song, / to gulp the cold wine down. // You are there now, I imagine, / in a place barely stapled down / with fences, in a landscape of sky. / All we know is what escapes us"—from the poem "Saskatchewan." The lyrical confessionals of ICEWATER advance through understatement, freezing (rather than burning) their way into the mind.
Author City: PORTLAND, OR USA
Jim Shugrue is the author of two chapbooks: Small Things Screaming (26 Books), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and ICEWATER (Trask House Books, 1997). His work has been recognized by the Oregon Arts Commission with a poetry fellowship and by the (New York) Open Voice Award. He is married to the poet, scholar, and teacher, Lisa Steinman with whom he co -edits Hubbub. Born in Chicago, Shugrue lives in Portland, Oregon.